Research

Free Press advances Darling Marine Center talk on coral reef conservation

The Free Press reported Peter Mumby, leader of the Marine Spatial Ecology Lab at the University of Queensland, Australia, will lead a seminar at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center (DMC) in Walpole at noon Wednesday, July 13. In his talk, “Managing Coral Reef Resilience and Ecosystem Functioning in an Era of Climate Change,” […]

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Daily Telegraph cites Garder’s study in article on roundabouts

The Daily Telegraph in Australia mentioned a study by Per Garder, a civil engineering professor at the University of Maine, in an article about how older drivers react to roundabouts. Garder’s two-year study found drivers over 70 years old took 3.95 seconds, on average, to negotiate a roundabout, according to the article. The only drivers […]

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Medical Xpress publishes profile on human nutrition master’s student

Medical Xpress published a University of Maine profile on Chantel Banus, a second-year master’s student in human nutrition. Banus, of Ashby, Massachusetts, is working to determine the factors that influence consumer purchase of seaweed products in the United States. She is conducting a survey to see what consumers are looking for in seaweed products and […]

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Chantel Banus

Chantel Banus: Exploring consumer acceptance of seaweed products

Chantel Banus, second-year master’s student in human nutrition at the University of Maine, is working to determine the factors that influence consumer purchase of seaweed products in the United States. Banus is conducting a survey to see what consumers are looking for in seaweed products and what influences their decision to purchase them. She wants […]

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Schmitt’s stories included in Press Herald roundup of new Acadia books, exhibit

A recently released title by Catherine Schmitt, communications director for Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine, was included in a Portland Press Herald roundup of new books and an exhibit that highlight Acadia National Park’s 100th anniversary. “Historic Acadia National Park: The Stories Behind One of America’s Great Treasures,” includes 12 […]

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Sorg quoted in Press Herald article on Bath-Brunswick addiction program

Marcella Sorg, a research professor of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, spoke with the Portland Press Herald for an article about the Addiction Resource Center (ARC) in Brunswick. The center’s open access to drug treatment — those suffering from addiction can typically get into the ARC within two to […]

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Medical Xpress reports on new microdevice developed by UMaine, Jackson Lab

Medical Xpress published a University of Maine news release about a new microdevice developed by researchers at the University of Maine MicroInstruments and Systems Laboratory (MISL), in collaboration with The Jackson Laboratory. The new microfluidic tool reproduces in the laboratory the same physiochemical environment that instructs embryonic stem cells to develop into organized tissue. Using […]

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New microdevice developed by UMaine, Jackson Lab replicates embryonic spinal cord development

Researchers at the University of Maine MicroInstruments and Systems Laboratory (MISL), in collaboration with The Jackson Laboratory, have developed a new microfluidic tool that reproduces in the laboratory the same physiochemical environment that instructs embryonic stem cells to develop into organized tissue. Using this device, the research team has successfully cultured a portion of a […]

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Huffington Post reports on limb regeneration research conducted by GSBSE scientists

Huffington Post reported on research conducted by scientists from Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory and the University of Maine’s Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering that found a key genetic element shared by animals with regenerative abilities. The study, published in the journal PLOS One by Benjamin King and Viravuth Yin, found three evolutionary […]

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